MCskiFreak

Foil, Hydrofoil, wing also is applicable. Thats a pretty heavy duty science project! there is a cool little calculator that nasa has where you can mess with the chord lenths and aspect ratios of a foil to find the drag coeff., lift, etc.

There are others that have experienced it too, going the route of having them drilled and patched is the easiest and cheapest option. There were a couple of guys over on TT that used JB weld, but I wouldnt recomend doing that. IIRC there was also a guy selling a set of cast iron manifolds on there.

A boat that small creates a whole lot of problems for a designer because of the Coast Guards level floatation regs for a boat that size. What this means in basic terms is you end up putting a ton of foam where you dont really want to just for the boat to have enough buoyancy to pass. It is one of the reasons none of the major builders are doing a small boat right now.

I dont know...thank you for the ideas though! It did give some inspiration of it it were going to move up and down to also use a multiposition hinge to allow it to become part of a sun pad...

I just havent had a chance to even think about the tower yet ive spent most of my time working on the running surface. Your back seat idea would work, but it would break up the lines of the boat...

Think more along the lines of a rumble seat. Havent even thought about a tower. Honestly with the look that I'm working towards it will be hard to come up with one that works with the lines of the boat.

The 91-94 hull did offer up some ideas but there is a considerable departure once you get to mid ships of the boat, the boat is being designed around the idea of using smaller higher power density engines as well as fully electric powertrain options.

Sloped transom and barrel back are two different designs, I agree that the early 90's CC transom was a bad design from use stand point. http://www.boatdesigns.com/products.asp?dept=721 The link is for an example of a barrel back transom. Fuel tanks are another problem, there are all sorts of regs. about where a tank can be in relation to the engine, plus the EPA just put a bunch of new laws into effect. I have been kicking around the idea of a 10 gallon "tournament tank" in the bow. I need to run some calcs and see what that does to the attitude of the boat and how it could be worked in.

The running surface is something totally different from anything on the market, my profs have seen my initial idea and think it is quite good.

So over the summer had some time to start messing with my ideas for a new boat design. I have a working hull form that I am starting to try to refine a bit. I have some styling ideas that I would like to run by people and see what they think. As of right now I am wanting to go with some bit retro if you will. Right now the LOA sits at just over 19' but retains the width of about 92", my plan is to have a pretty severe shear line that blends into a barrel back transom with a step over, similar in concept to the Svara. My overall goal is beauty over bling, something that has definite influences from the 30' and 40's runabouts. Thoughts?

@tru-Jack, Skiers pier does not have a txi in stock, but The Edge in Portage does have a TXi in stock.

Looked at it at the global invitational seems like a super heavy set-up for a high end ski. The boots are made by the company that made Apollo Ono's speed skates but they seem like they are just way to heavy. Ski does look good though, and they are using the running surface is similar to the Connelly V's.

Prop swapping is a constant source of headaches for the factory as some dealers seem to think that they should just slap Acmes on the boats when they were designed and tested using OJ, although that shouldn't be an issue with any tournament boat if the officials are doing their jobs since the MC is only certified to run using OJ.

If it were my money I would wait for the S2, that stepped bottom design is a great idea imo and should make a world of difference over the S1. I noticed that the new Prophcey design also has a stepped design, should be interesting to see how these designs shape up.

That sounds like a voltage problem to the unit, not getting hot in the sun. Check all of your cables for good clean connections. What condition is the battery in?

I would agree with anyone commenting on the ZO calibration for jump, but not the comments that MC's shouldnt pull juniors because the wakes are "dangerous."

I've stayed pretty quiet on this issue for the obvious reason of not wanting to be accused of drinking the MC cool-aid too much, but this really is kind of crazy to be sending e-mails to AWSA and MC demanding changes to the boats. The evo hull has been in production for a decade now, and the changes for 2011 were the new strut with a differently pitched prop and the new Ilmor engines. Now there is some weight difference between the Indmar's and Ilmor's but not enough to cause a major upset in the boats balance so that is a wash and the new strut certainly isnt going to make the wake larger. Within any of the tournament boats there will be variation in weight of some degree just because of the way that the resin is sprayed, again a negligible amount, but the single biggest weight difference will come from having a tower and added weight in the bow. As some have mentioned it seems some of the promo guys are running alot of weight in the bow which certainly could be a contributing factor, but as most of you know the biggest contributor to wake feel is the prop. So before jumping all over MC checking that the boat has the correct prop for its setup would be a great idea ie did the owner put the prop for the inmar motor on an ilmor powered boat and vice versa. While its true that there is some troubles with ZO that isnt something that MC will let slide, since they are in the business of tournament water sports and one of its biggest supporters (lest all of the CC and BU guys forget that), and no one at MC wants to hear of their boats being accused of not performing as advertised. Frankly I was somewhat surprised when I read that someone thinks that the MC's wake is dangerous and they think it could kill someone! Given that most of you are a little more advanced in age most of you were around when the 2001 and older CC's were around and no one died from skiing through one of their wakes. Taking a pragmatic approach and making sure that if you're child is going to ski behind an unfamiliar boat making sure they have good edge control versus blaming the boat seems to be a more constructive approach to me.

Just ski better!

@jipster43, you will be a happy camper the 2012 tt boats are metal flake

Another varible would be some of the 2011's left the factory without the new strut.

It took maybe two sets to feel comfortable with them, I had been using the 3 finger HO gloves for a long time though so that may have eased the transition.

I just bought the new Radar Vice glove, like the Masterlines, and love them!

All the major mfg. seem to be moving their high end skis to a stepped bottom design, the new prophecy has it too. I'm feeling another CFD project coming up!

There are cg regs that make designing a mid-mounted tank difficult, and the new regs for permeation barriers and charcoal canisters makes it even more difficult.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaVSBkK5AtU video of the system being tested.